Naming Awk
The Endeavour 2023-09-22
Summary:
The Awk programming language was named after the initials of its creators. In the preface to a book that just came out, The AWK Programing Language, Second Edition, the authors give a little background on this. Naming a language after its creators shows a certain paucity of imagination. In our defense, we didn’t have a […]
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